news digest ♦ Equipment and Materials
Brolis Semiconductors Ltd. was established in 2011, by Augustinas, Kristijonas and Dominykas Vizbaras. The three brothers specialise in long-wavelength semiconductor lasers and MBE. The manufacturing facility and the company headquarters were established in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania.
Brolis provides MBE services for custom structures on GaAs, InP , GaSb and InAs substrates up to 6 inch (150 mm) in diameter. Possible applications include IR detectors, focal plane arrays, laser diodes, quantum cascade lasers, HBTs and Hall sensors.
Brolis Semiconductors also offers both multimode Fabry-Perot and single-mode DFB lasers. Possible applications include various gas sensing, combustion control, environmental monitoring applications.
The company aims to become the leading global provider of complex epitaxial structures based on arsenides and antimonides for the electronic and optoelectronic world market. In particular, the company is focused on long-wavelength optoelectronics. The firm says its MBE expertise has enabled it to deliver the world’s only room- temperature GaSb laser diodes in the wavelength range for 2µm – 3.8 µm range.
Business booming at Oxford Instruments with revenues up 28.6%
The supplier of plasma process tools, for research into and production of a number of key compound semiconductor applications has also seen improvements in sales and in its order book
Oxford Instruments has announced its preliminary results for the year up to 31st March 2012.
The company is a provider of high technology tools and systems for research and industry. It designs and manufactures equipment that can fabricate, analyse and manipulate matter at the atomic and molecular level.
Oxford Instruments has discrete business groups operating in three sectors; nanotechnology,
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Three acquisitions were made during the year; Omicron Nanotechnology, Omniprobe and Platinum Medical Imaging. The company strengthened its new product pipeline, with 44% of revenue from products launched or acquired in the last three years, up from 34% in 2011.
industrial products and service. Among other things, the firm manufactures microanalysis systems and etching and deposition and growth tools used in the compound semiconductor industry.
Revenue was up 28.6% over last year from £262.3 million to £337.3 million. Adjusted profit before tax was also up 60.3% from £26.2 million in 2011, to £42.0 million. Adjusted EPS also increased by 48.4% to 61.6 pence.
The firm also experienced a 23.5% increase in order intake to £337.8 million (in 2011 it was £273.5 million). Oxford Instruments says it achieved record performance across all three business sectors, with strong organic growth in all territories.
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